Emilie Agreste

Emilie Agreste is Gabriel Agreste's wife and Adrien's mother. According to Adrien in a webisode, her current status is unknown. Currently, she is in Gabriel Agreste's repository, where she is being kept in a coffin.

Appearance

Physical appearance

Based on pictures, Emilie seems to have fair skin, green eyes, and blond hair which she keeps in a side ponytail. She also has thin lips, a small nose, a pointy chin, thin eyebrows, and upturned eyes.

Civilian attire

In many of the most recent pictures of her as an adult, Emilie wears a black blouse with a light pink jacket worn over it. On the coat, a brooch shaped like a flower with five petals with a pearl in the center can be seen. As seen in concept art, she also wears light pink business pants and black high heel shoes.^[1]

For more of Emilie Agreste's outfits and designs, see Emilie Agreste/Designs.

However, as a teenager, from what is shown on Adrien's desktop computer, she is shown to wear an ocean blue dress.

Personality

Not much is known about Emilie Agreste, except she is stated to be a kindhearted, loving person, mother, and wife. According to Gabriel, she was stubborn and headstrong when it came to other people's safety, similarly to Adrien. Gabriel also says that, like Adrien, she was "overly dramatic."

Family

Tree

Gabriel Agreste

Emilie Agreste

Adrien Agreste

Gabriel Agreste

Emilie Agreste

Adrien Agreste

    = Male

    = Female

    = Gender Unknown

Notes

• Emilie Agreste mysteriously disappeared before the events of Season 1. In "Style Queen" and "Queen Wasp", it was revealed that she is underneath the Agreste Mansion in the same room seen in "Gorizilla", inside a coffin in what appears to be a comatose state.

Sightings

Episodes

Trivia

• Thomas Astruc revealed her existence by releasing an image of her hugging Adrien as a sneak peek with the caption, "Where is she?"^[2]

• There is a portrait of her in Gabriel's atelier in the Agreste mansion.
  • The portrait resembles Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, commonly known as The Woman in Gold or The Lady in Gold.
  • Behind the painting, there is a secret safe, in which Gabriel keeps the Peacock Miraculous and a booklet that reads "TIBET" in big green letters in front of a picture of her.
  • "The Collector" reveals that the painting has hidden buttons that open the secret entrance to Hawk Moth's lair.
• The image of her used as Adrien's computer background is actually a real-life photo of voice actress Tara Strong, with the top changed from magenta to blue and Emilie's face edited over Tara's face.^[3]
  • The writers admitted at an event that they modeled Emilie's design on Tara, whom they favor because of her work.^[4]
  • At a convention in 2016, a fan asked Tara Strong if she was aware of the photo resembling her. Though she agreed there were definite similarities, she had no knowledge of it until then. ^[5]
• A picture of her is inside of the Butterfly Miraculous, which is currently owned by Gabriel Agreste who uses it to transform into Hawk Moth.
• "A Christmas Special" reveals that she disappeared some time in the last year, as it is Adrien's first Christmas without her.
• A future episode will track the relationship between Emilie and Gabriel.^[6]
• "Gorizilla" reveals that Emilie was the leading actress in the film Solitude. Because of the emotional attachment that Gabriel has to the film due to her role in it, he forbade his son from watching it, though he later changed his mind.

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